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23.2.6.4 DocTestParser objects
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  <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span>&nbsp;<tt id='l2h-4973' xml:id='l2h-4973' class="class">DocTestParser</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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    A processing class used to extract interactive examples from a
    string, and use them to create a <tt class="class">DocTest</tt> object.
    
<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.4.</span>

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<tt class="class">DocTestParser</tt> defines the following methods:

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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4974' xml:id='l2h-4974' class="method">get_doctest</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>string, globs, name, filename, lineno</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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    Extract all doctest examples from the given string, and collect
    them into a <tt class="class">DocTest</tt> object.

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<var>globs</var>, <var>name</var>, <var>filename</var>, and <var>lineno</var> are
    attributes for the new <tt class="class">DocTest</tt> object.  See the
    documentation for <tt class="class">DocTest</tt> for more information.
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  <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4975' xml:id='l2h-4975' class="method">get_examples</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
  <td><var>string</var><big>[</big><var>, name</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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    Extract all doctest examples from the given string, and return
    them as a list of <tt class="class">Example</tt> objects.  Line numbers are
    0-based.  The optional argument <var>name</var> is a name identifying
    this string, and is only used for error messages.
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  <td><var>string</var><big>[</big><var>, name</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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    Divide the given string into examples and intervening text, and
    return them as a list of alternating <tt class="class">Example</tt>s and strings.
    Line numbers for the <tt class="class">Example</tt>s are 0-based.  The optional
    argument <var>name</var> is a name identifying this string, and is only
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